Identify or invent names for human poses we've all seen but don't know the name for (like "arms akimbo")

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Is there a name for this yawn pose?
https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-5d034e7c11a7174e34d9e05fca4ab603-lq

What about the half-akimbo lean Data's doing here?
https://64.media.tumblr.com/25292301fbf8d57b2fa64c151e36c52d/tumblr_oytlwl3qf21wgel0eo3_400.gif

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 17 January 2024 21:43 (eleven months ago) link

Should be self-evident that neither of these are human poses

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 17 January 2024 23:59 (eleven months ago) link

https://m0vie.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/tng-hideanq12.jpg?w=400

Hm... you got a point there...

Philip Nunez, Thursday, 18 January 2024 00:10 (eleven months ago) link

When I would do the Data lean my Mom would say "Don't slouch," so maybe an akimbo slouch?

nickn, Thursday, 18 January 2024 00:15 (eleven months ago) link

'Kimbo Slouch -- I love it!

Philip Nunez, Thursday, 18 January 2024 00:20 (eleven months ago) link

The old "Well La Dee Da"

https://as1.ftcdn.net/v2/jpg/05/00/07/38/1000_F_500073820_rbg3sEv8U9dP2gHzre1YwNmMA2RHXMQO.jpg

Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 18 January 2024 00:30 (eleven months ago) link

If the first pic wasn't a yawn, but was instead a brief expression of delight, it would be the "Cracking Cheese, Gromit."

Hideous Lump, Thursday, 18 January 2024 07:03 (eleven months ago) link

* toast

assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 18 January 2024 13:06 (eleven months ago) link

Vest self-exam?

Philip Nunez, Thursday, 18 January 2024 17:40 (eleven months ago) link

The brace clutch.

emil.y, Thursday, 18 January 2024 17:59 (eleven months ago) link

Bulletproof Casual

Hideous Lump, Thursday, 18 January 2024 23:49 (eleven months ago) link

^^^^ Data dreams of electric sheep

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 19 January 2024 00:49 (eleven months ago) link

that pose feels like a more militarized cousin to "Southern lawyer pulls on suspenders while delivering closing arguments to the jury"

https://previews.123rf.com/images/iakovenko/iakovenko1801/iakovenko180100813/93329715-waist-up-portrait-of-joyful-old-male-pulling-away-his-suspenders-and-laughing-isolated-on-background.jpg

Philip Nunez, Friday, 19 January 2024 17:17 (eleven months ago) link

This pose is a default answer to "what do I do with my hands?"
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/rLtgBcSenh7FmfdwzHw8Jk.jpg

but what do you call it? "Twiddle-readiness"?

Philip Nunez, Monday, 22 January 2024 22:22 (eleven months ago) link

Lots of suggestions here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RKoAZw0Kpk

B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 22 January 2024 22:58 (eleven months ago) link

Have always wanted a name to put with whatever Bowie's doing with hands on the cover of 'Heroes', have at it

Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Monday, 22 January 2024 23:16 (eleven months ago) link

Heckeling

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Monday, 22 January 2024 23:22 (eleven months ago) link

Interesting article! Were Heckel and Schiele pose pals?

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 19:41 (eleven months ago) link

cursory google doesn't turn up a personal connection (though their respective scenes clearly influenced each other), but did yield this - https://thepressmusicreviews.wordpress.com/2021/10/13/bowie-and-egon-schiele/

i did not realize just how influenced bowie was by schiele!

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 20:16 (eleven months ago) link

Oh, wild. Thanks for that. And I don't know how I've gone this long without realizing Bowie and Iggy were both doing their weird hand poses on Berlin-era album covers.

Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 20:52 (eleven months ago) link


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